The Illustrated Book of Sayings: Curious Expressions from Around the World [Hardcover]

From theNew York Times bestselling author ofLost in Translation andEating the Sun, a charming illustrated collection of more than fifty expressions from around the globe that explores the nuances of language

From the hilarious and romantic to the philosophical and literal, the idioms, proverbs, and adages in this illustrated collection address the nuances of language in the form of sayings from around the world. From the French idiom “to pedal in the sauerkraut” (meaning, “to spin your wheels”), to the Japanese idiom “even monkeys fall from trees” (meaning, “even experts can be wrong”),The Illustrated Book of Sayings reveals the remarkable diversity, humor, and poignancy of the world’s languages and cultures. A charming little book with delightful illustrations.
-- San Francisco Chronicle

. . .a charming collection of idioms that get lost in translation. The kinds of phrases you don't often hear in traditional language lessons, these are the sayings that you learn when immersed in a culture. From the bleak to the romantic and straight-up weird, each one is explained in words and pictures—perfectly outlining the sometimes hard-to-comprehend concepts. There are too many favorites to list.
-- Cool Hunting

Ella Frances Sanders' Illustrated Book of Sayings unlocks phrases that are unusual and delightful to the ears and, through charming illustrations, easy on the eyes.
-- FathomELLA FRANCES SANDERS is a writer out of necessity and an illustrator by accident. She currently lives and works in the city of Bath, UK, without a cat. Her first book,Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World, was aNew York Timesbestseller and is now, perhaps ironically, being translated into many other languages. She still doesn&rslÓ+